Mac-Farlane

surname · Latin script

Mac-Farlane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of McFarlane.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 72K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 119K
  • FIFinland1 in 253K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,605 people, 2010

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Macfarlane in US United States, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Variant spelling of McFarlane.

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Scottish Surnames
  • Wiktionary
  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mac-Farlane counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mac-Farlane is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,6051 in 72K4.7KMacfarlane55
ES Spain581 in 862K58Macfarlane6
NO Norway461 in 119K46——
FI Finland221 in 253K22—1
SE Sweden161 in 638K16—1
DK Denmark71 in 838K7——

4,605 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mac-Farlane is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Chinese

    Also written Macfarlane

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Mac-Farlane
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mac-Farlane mean, and where does it come from?
Variant spelling of McFarlane. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Scottish Surnames and 3 other sources.
In which country does Mac-Farlane have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Mac-Farlane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macfarlane.
Where is Mac-Farlane most common?
Mac-Farlane is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mac-Farlane?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,605 people named Mac-Farlane in 2010, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mac-Farlane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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